Feb. 17's annular solar eclipse occurred as the lunar disk slipped between the sun and Earth during its new moon phase. The alignment occurred as the moon travelled through a distant point in its ...

Today (Feb. 17), an annular solar eclipse will commence its journey across a remote region of Antarctica where it will be visible to more penguins than people. The partial solar eclipse portion of the ...

The upcoming annular solar eclipse will be the first since 2024. During the event, the moon's shadow will carve a path 383 ...

This is a massive star that exploded 35,000 years ago, and the deep-sky image just won an award – a first in the prestigious ...

The event was first recorded in 2014, when a Nasa space telescope noticed a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy slowly becoming brighter in infrared light.

Their research was guided by a prediction from the 1970s: if a star collapses directly into a black hole, it should briefly glow in infrared light as it sheds its outer layers and becomes wrapped in ...

In my January 23, 2026, “The Universe” column, I wrote about some of the biggest bangs the universe has to offer: exploding stars, hiccupping magnetars, stellar disruptions and colliding black holes.

The curious minds at What If investigate the catastrophic scenario of the sun exploding, revealing how life on Earth and the very fabric of our solar system would be instantly and drastically ...

A new sunspot group has quickly grown and is spewing out the most intense type of solar flare. Effects on Earth are forecast ...

“Here comes the sun” never sounded so ominous. The sun is putting on a superheated fireworks display. Our solar system’s light source just unleashed four powerful solar flares between Feb 1 and2, ...

Space scientists have announced that the Sun has fired four massive solar flares. The outbursts were captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft, which monitors our star’s activity for ...

The Sun has snapped into a hyperactive mood, unleashing a rapid-fire sequence of powerful eruptions just as a volatile ...